By population, Melur1 ranks #1 of 4 villages in Coonoor mandal — the largest.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Melur1 is a village of 13,244 people in 3,944 households (Census 2011) in Coonoor taluk, The Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu, the largest of 4 villages in Coonoor taluk. Literacy is 75%, about the same as the taluk average of 75% and the sex ratio is 1,056 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 643204, served by Chamraj Estate post office; the LGD village code is 635114. The village votes in Coonoor assembly constituency, represented by MLA K. M. Raju. The population is estimated at 15,615 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Melur →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
Centred on The Nilgiris district
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